House Rules

• If it’s WotC material, it’s allowed, at least for now. It might need some flavor changes to match the setting.
  
  
• Sure Strike (Fighter 1): Add Strength to damage
  
  
• Careful Attack (Ranger 1): Add Strength to melee damage, Dexterity to missile damage
  
  
• Half-Giants: They're effectively Minotaur stats, with Genasi Earthshock (aka Stomp) instead of Goring Charge.
  
  
• An Endless Quiver is a first level magic item costing 360gp (enough to buy over 1,000 arrows).
  
  
• Battle Mage's Arcane Riposte: the attack roll uses Intelligence instead of Dexterity, and it uses your implement for a magical bonus.
  
  
• Regeneration Infusion: Either the regeneration is equal to your Intelligence modifier, or the power lasts until the end of the encounter rather than being sustained. The choice is up to the Battle Mage’s player.
  
  
• Characters can be changed when new books come out to make sure every character, new or old, has the same options. Apart from retraining, any number of massive changes can occur when one bathes in a pool.
  
  
• The pact-replacement ability of the Student of Caiphon does not say what type of action the attack granted by it is, but it does use the word “immediate” in the description, so we’re going with it being an Immediate Reaction for now. This keeps the warlock from giving the fighter the ultimate chain cleave, and makes it more of a tactical choice, since it would mean that the fighter could not use his Combat Challenge interrupt if he takes the opportunity to slam out some free damage.
  
  
• There is nothing in the Dragon article that stops a student of Caiphon from negating the small bits of damage that some of the abilities deal. However, this makes it too easy to not have accost associated with some rather pricey powers, and goes against the way Caiphon works, which is “nothing is free.” So (on the warlock player’s advice) we decided the damage caused to oneself by those powers cannot be reduced or prevented.
  
  
• Minions do not always die from a single hit. If a minion would be destroyed, it is instead knocked down. A critical hit destroys a minion, and an attack which would deal damage on a miss still deals that damage to them. Should such an attack hit, the minion is destroyed. If it takes any damage while knocked down, it is destroyed. Otherwise they make a saving throw on their turn. If they fail, they twitch one final time, attack an adjacent target while prone, and they die. If they succeed, they act normally.
  
  To avoid the massive amounts of condition tracking this could add, any status effects caused by an attack will instead count as a hit. For example, Crushing Titan’s Fist deals damage and immobilizes those hit. Minions in the area would be destroyed. Some examples:

The fighter hits a minion twice, cleaving into the minion next to it each time: both die.
The fighter crits a minion with cleave: it dies, the other one he damages is knocked prone.
The warlock hits a minion with Eldritch Blast and triggers Warlock's Curse: the minion is knocked prone (the amount of damage doesn’t matter, so strikers do not gain a benefit against minions that they did not have under the core rules).
The wizard fireballs a bunch of minions: Since it does damage on a miss, it'll count as a hit no matter what. Any minions hit by the attack will die. Minions that are missed will be knocked prone.
The cleric traps some minions inside a Fire Storm: they die at the start of their turn (one hit when it lands, plus one hit when they start their turn in it).
The artificer hits a minion with Burrowing Projectile: it's almost guaranteed to die because the initial damage plus one round of ongoing count as two hits.
The artificer misses a minion with a natural one for Runic Resistance: No change in it's status. :)

• Penalties to saving throws do not stack. This opens up the new items in Adventurer’s Vault without making it possible to give someone a -15 (or more) to their saving throws.
  
  
• When using an existing teleportation circle to cast Planar Portal, the costs drops to 2,000gp.
  
  
• Closing Spell does more damage if it’s your last daily power. Battle Mages also get a 12^th level daily power that can’t trigger until you’ve been dropped to 0 hit points. The two combine to mean that to really capitalize on the former you have to get your ass kicked first so you can use up the latter. We house ruled Closing Spell to only need to be your last remaining attack spell.